The irritant of the non-credible journalists — Last week they went after Microsoft. — This week they are going after Apple. — You know, I'm seeing a trend here. Some bloggers don't know who is a credible journalist and who isn't. Hint: anything the Register writes is NOT credible.

Trigger Happy? — Looks like we all went trigger happy this week - in the blogging sense of course. — Earlier this past week, there was word that nearly 60% of the Microsoft Vista was going to be rewritten, a move that caused a big furor. Now, if you stopped to think for even a few seconds …

The New Wisdom of the Web — Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this time, it's all about ... you. — Photos by Nigel Parry for Newsweek — Snapshots: Flickr's Butterfield (left) and Fake

Who's Building the Next Web? — Got a lot of free time? You're going to need it to enjoy the fruits of Silicon Valley's latest labors: start-ups that want you to spend even more of your life online. — April 3, 2006 issue - Deciphering the exact meaning of the phrase Web 2.0 is a popular parlor game in Silicon Valley.

4 blog birthday — 4 years don't sound like a lot of time from here: it's about 12% of my life. Then I start reading what I was writing 4 years ago. — Back then I was still a bubble 1.0 CEO with a couple of VC on my board still hoping to go public. So many things have changed since …

Four years blogging — Paolo Valdemarin's note about his 4th blogging anniversary yesterday reminded me that I've now been blogging for 4 years too. I started blogging on 21 March 2002, five days before Paolo started his first public weblog, on the 26th. — Unlike him, I wasn't blogging …

Searching for Dummies — Plainsboro, N.J. — TALK of decline was old news in academia even in 1898, when traditionalists blasted Harvard for ending its Greek entrance requirement. But today there's a new twist in the story: Are search engines making today's students dumber?

Here's an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas — LIKE many top executives, James R. Lavoie and Joseph M. Marino keep a close eye on the stock market. But the two men, co-founders of Rite-Solutions, a software company that builds advanced — and highly classified — command-and-control systems for the Navy …

Norgs: the unconference: "this is the day that the war ends" — I wanted to post this quickly to point you to a few participants and their reports, the day was too big skip without getting at least this up. I will have more later, about the day, the format (hey - the unconference format works!), and thoughts for the future.

With Broadband, the PC's Siren Call Is Tough to Resist — If you had any lingering doubts that the Internet was rapidly elbowing its way into becoming an outsize presence in the American household, check out new numbers from Nielsen/NetRatings. — Just three short years ago …

Ruby and the Struggle of the Perspectives... Lot of folks have chimed in on a previous posting on Ruby and responded with passion and supplied their own perspectives but zero facts. One of the reasons I blog is that in my travels, I tend to talk to lots of folks and hear interesting perspectives in which I share here.

Vista Build 5342 Today! — As lame as this may sound, we knew about it first. To days ago to be exact.. But our host had given us the boot, and we couldn't tell you that we would be getting a midnight build come Friday.... But that is OK, because NeoSmart Technologies has more than a mere build number and date.